Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?

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Hauptverfasser: Johnson, Jacoby, Kharel, Subash, Mannamplackal, Alan, Abdelfattah, Amr S., Cerny, Tomas
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Johnson, Jacoby
Kharel, Subash
Mannamplackal, Alan
Abdelfattah, Amr S.
Cerny, Tomas
author_facet Johnson, Jacoby
Kharel, Subash
Mannamplackal, Alan
Abdelfattah, Amr S.
Cerny, Tomas
contents Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google's Service Weaver aims to simplify the complexities associated with implementing cloud-native systems by introducing the concept of a single modular binary composed of agent-like components, thereby abstracting away the microservice architecture notion of individual services. While Service Weaver presents a promising approach to streamline the development of cloud-native applications and addresses nearly all significant aspects of conventional cloud-native systems, there are existing tradeoffs affecting the overall functionality of the system. Notably, Service Weaver's straightforward implementation and deployment of components alleviate the overhead of constructing a complex microservice architecture. However, it is important to acknowledge that certain features, including separate code bases, routing mechanisms, resiliency, and security, are presently lacking in the framework.
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spellingShingle Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?
Johnson, Jacoby
Kharel, Subash
Mannamplackal, Alan
Abdelfattah, Amr S.
Cerny, Tomas
Software Engineering
Emerging Technologies
Cloud-native and microservice architectures have taken over the development world by storm. While being incredibly scalable and resilient, microservice architectures also come at the cost of increased overhead to build and maintain. Google's Service Weaver aims to simplify the complexities associated with implementing cloud-native systems by introducing the concept of a single modular binary composed of agent-like components, thereby abstracting away the microservice architecture notion of individual services. While Service Weaver presents a promising approach to streamline the development of cloud-native applications and addresses nearly all significant aspects of conventional cloud-native systems, there are existing tradeoffs affecting the overall functionality of the system. Notably, Service Weaver's straightforward implementation and deployment of components alleviate the overhead of constructing a complex microservice architecture. However, it is important to acknowledge that certain features, including separate code bases, routing mechanisms, resiliency, and security, are presently lacking in the framework.
title Service Weaver: A Promising Direction for Cloud-native Systems?
topic Software Engineering
Emerging Technologies
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09357